ERDAS Imagine – A Introduction to ToolBar

ERDAS  Imagine – A Introduction to ToolBar

Earth Resource Data Analysis System (ERDAS) is an remote sensing application software for Geo-spatial Analysis. It helps the Analyst to process, display and excavate information specific to the user’s Area of Interest (AOI) for GIS.

Requirements:

ERDAS Imagine Software ( I use 2010)

An Digital Image or LADSAT Imagery

Storage Folders created in your local Hard Drive

Understanding the Menu Bar:

Familiarize yourself with the menu items located along the top left of the icon panel  on the software.

1.     Session:  Session settings such as user preferences and configuration.

2.     Main: Allows access to all the modules located along the icon panel.

3.     Tools: Allows you to display and edit annotation, image, and vector information, access  

           surface draping capabilities, manage post script and true type fonts, convert

          coordinates, and view ERDAS Macro Language (EML) script files.

4.     Utilities: Allows access to a variety of compression and conversion algorithms including

JPEG, ASCII, image to annotation, and annotation to raster.  

5.     Help: On-Line Help documentation as well as icon panel and version information.  

1.    Viewer: A main window for displaying raster, vector, AOI, and annotation layers.

2.    Import/Export: Allows downloads and uploads of Vector or Raster Data

3.    Data/Prep: Set of Data Tools that will help in Image Classification.

4.    Composer:  Prepares data for hardcopy map production.

5.    Interpreter: GIS Analysis, Spatial enhancement, spectral enhancement, Fourier analysis, topographic analysis, various Image manipulation utilities.

6.    Catalog:  Catalog the enables easy retrieval of Raster Files, stored in the archive database.  

7.    Classifier:  Helps perform supervised or unsupervised image classification.

8.    Modeler: Allows you to perform many GIS algebra and GIS modeling operations using Model Maker and the Spatial Modeler Language.

9.    Vectors: Tools in allows conversion raster to vector and vice versa, build and clean vector layers, copy, rename, and delete vector layers, and more.

10. Radar: Provides access to native image processing operations with radar imagery.

11. Virtual GIS: This an Add-on-module. VirtualGIS is a family of tools for working with perspective scene generation and virtual worlds. This is a separately-licensed add-on module for IMAGINE.

12. Streo: This an Add-on-module. Details to be referred on ERDAS Help.

13. Auto-Sync: This an Add-on-module. Details to be referred on ERDAS Help.

14. Sub-Pixel: This an Add-on-module. Details to be referred on ERDAS Help.

15. Delta Cue: This an Add-on-module. Details to be referred on ERDAS Help.

16. Objective: This an Add-on-module. Details to be referred on ERDAS Help.

17. Feature: This an Add-on-module. Details to be referred on ERDAS Help.